[lbo-talk] criteria

[Andy]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adorno on the "scribbler," in 1938:
>
> "If Sibelius is to be considered a good composer, then we shall have
> to disregard all of the criteria historically used to evaluate music
> from Bach to Schoenberg."
>
> Adorno's funny. Not that I disagree that's Sibelius is kind of sucky,
> and not because of the snobbery -- snob away, I say -- and not even
> because of the quasinationalist elevation of Bach and Schoenberg, but
> because of his thoroughly bourgeois belief that deploying
> transhistorical "criteria" is an acceptable critical approach.

I was just thinking the other day how I've never heard a politically
engaged prole do that.

-- 
Andy